Christmas Madness-Part XII

Please Come Home for Christmas is a Christmas song, released in 1960, by the American blues singer and pianist Charles Brown. Hitting Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in December 1961, the tune Brown co-wrote with Gene Redd peaked at position #76. It appeared on the Christmas Singles chart for nine seasons, hitting #1 in 1972. It includes a number of characteristics of Christmas music, such as multiple references in the lyrics to the Christmas season and Christmas traditions, and the use of a Church bell type sound, created using a piano, at the start of the song. It is sometimes referred to as Bells Will Be Ringing.


In 1978, the rock band Eagles covered and released the song as a single. Their version of the song peaked at #18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts. The lineup features Don Henley (drums/vocals), Glenn Frey (piano, backing vocals), Joe Walsh (guitar, backing vocals), Timothy B. Schmidt (bass/backing vocals), and Don Felder (lead guitar). Originally released as a vinyl 7" single, it was re-released in the nineties as a CD-single.

Other artists who have recorded the song:

Gary Allan
Keith Anderson
Fiona Apple
Pat Benatar
Jon Bon Jovi
James Brown
Anita Cochran
Holly Cole
Harry Connick, Jr.
Eagles
Dion DiMucci
Josh Gracin
Andy Griggs
Taylor Horn
Etta James
Bob Kames
Toby Keith
Sammy Kershaw
B. B. King
Dave Koz & Kimberley Locke
Unwritten Law
Lonestar
Southside Johnny Lyon
Jesse McCartney
Willie Nelson
Aaron Neville
Lee Roy Parnell
Randy Rogers Band
Sawyer Brown
Vonda Shepard
Sister Hazel
The Uniques
Luther Vandross
Clay Walker
Johnny Winter

Listen to the Eagles version of this classic hit.